Comparación de resultados experimentales y modelos matemáticos

1984 – Florida establishes Florida’s Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP), which allows researchers to use UI and program data to track education and training program results.

1989 – Florida Chamber of Commerce issued a Cornerstone Report directed at reforming the way economic development was accomplished in Florida. The report called for establishing public/private partnerships to direct economic development toward higher value-added industries and services.

1992 – Florida Legislature created Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI), a public/private partnership between state, business, government, and education sectors dedicated to expanding Florida economic development.

1994 – The Florida Legislature established a workforce affiliate called the Jobs and Education Partnership responsible for evaluating and coordinating workforce development activities and three programs: Quick Response Training, Occupational Forecasting, and Performance Based Incentive Funding for postsecondary education. 1995 – The governor directed the Jobs and Education Partnership to take a leadership role in redesigning the state’s workforce development system, particularly in anticipation of possible federal block grant legislation. In addition, 20 economic development leaders helped determine the appropriate geographic groupings of one or more counties for the workforce development system (without breaking up vocational education service delivery areas).

1996 –

• Governor approved 25 designated service delivery areas (there are now 24) and 24 Title III substate areas.

• Workforce Florida Act of 1996 required the chartering of the new Regional Workforce Investment Boards by July 1, 1996, abolished several preexisting state boards, established three tiers of outcome measures, and limited administrative expenditures to ten percent. Jobs and Education Partnership is designated as the State Job Training Coordinating Council.

• The legislature enacted WAGES (Work and Gain Economic Self-Sufficiency) in October, a program to reduce welfare dependence for AFDC/TANF recipients, under a new state-level WAGES Board.

• Florida abolished the Department of Commerce and delegated economic development responsibility to EFI.

1999 – Florida opted for early implementation of WIA, primarily to take advantage of greater flexibility in the use of federal job training dollars, specifically including incumbent worker training.

2000 –

• The Florida legislature consolidated the funding streams of TANF, WIA, Wagner- Peyser Act, Food Stamp Employment and Training, Welfare-to-Work, Veterans’ Employment and Training Services, and Job Corps recruitment in Senate Bill 2050.

• The state placed all Employment Service employees under the local boards’ control.

• Workforce Florida Inc. separated from EFI to serve as the policy arm of the workforce system.

Source of Information: Workforce Florida, Inc. State of Florida Strategic Five-Year Plan, pp. 7-9.

Notes

1 _{Amy MacDonald Buck was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University when this case study was prepared.}

Ms. Buck is currently employed by the U.S. General Accounting Office.

2 _{Workforce Florida Strategic Plan, 2002-2005, page 2-9.}

3 _{Workforce Innovation Act of 2000.Title XXXI, Chapter 445.007 (7a – 7b).}

4 _{The state of Florida wrote into its state plan that it will de-obligate funds twice annually, and wishes that}

federal regulations would permit this.

5 _{The Region 8 board, however, would like to focus all of its training on incumbent workers.} 6 _{Workforce Florida Strategic Plan, 2002-2005.}

7 _{Workforce Florida Strategic Plan, 2002-2005, page 3-1.}

8 _{Federal law and regulations require Wagner-Peyser Act services to be delivered by state government}

employees and personnel acts may not be subrogated to local entities in accordance with 20 CFR 262.216.

9 _{Workforce Florida Strategic Plan, 2002-2005, page 1-2.} 10 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc. March 2001, page 4.} 11 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc. March 2001, page 4.} 12 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc. March 2001, page 5.} 13 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc. December 2001, page 1.} 14 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc. December 2001, page 1.} 15 _{Interview with Regional Administrator for Region III (Atlanta).}

16 _{U.S. DOL indicates that federal law waiver authority does not extend to Section 7(a) activities under the}

Wagner-Peyser Act.

17 _{Operation Paycheck was a state response to the loss of tourism related jobs after September 11. Anyone}

laid off after 9/11 who didn’t have skills in demand was eligible for training in their school district or at their community college or voc tech institute. Use of state-level funds expedited credit and lowered fees at any of these institutions.

18 _{The Florida Education and Training Placement Information Program (FETPIP) is administered by the}

Florida Department of Education. This automated system collects, maintains, and disseminates placement and follow-up information. Since its establishment in 1988, the scope of the program has expanded to include quarterly as well as annual information. The data collected concern the educational histories, placement and employment, military enlistments, and other measures of success of former participants in Florida's educational and workforce development programs. FETPIP's method of data collection replaces conventional survey-type techniques, and provides aggregated outcomes in an accurate, timely, and cost effective manner. See http://www.floridajobs.org/pdg/quickquestions/fetpip/whatis.htm.

19 _{Workforce Florida, Inc., Strategic Five Year Plan, Modification 4. page 81.} 20 _{Workforce Florida, Inc., Strategic Five Year Plan, Modification 4. page 81.}

21_{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc., Fall 2002, page 4.} 22 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc., Fall 2002, page 4.} 23 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc., Fall 2002, page 4.} 24 _{Partners’ Report, Workforce Florida, Inc., Fall 2002, page 4.} 25 _{http://www.floridajobs.org/PDG/quickquestions/fetpip/whatis.htm.}

26 _{The risk to the state, however, is that if the federal government fails to accept the local standards}